Wisconsin’s largest business lobbying group has filed a suit against the Department of Natural Resources, claiming the agency doesn’t have the authority to sample for “forever chemicals” in the wastewater discharged by businesses across the state. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-business
The Mayor of Duluth, Minnesota, is asking the Army Corps of Engineers to investigate whether the federal agency’s maintenance work on shipping channels could have caused shoreline erosion on Park Point. Read the full story by the Star Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-parkpoint
The city of New Baltimore, Michigan, is seeking a grant to restore the stretch of Anchor Bay shoreline that runs through Ruedisale Point Park on Lake St. Clair. Read the full story by The Voice.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-newbaltimore
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources plans to stock more than 400,000 catchable brook, brown, rainbow, and lake trout this year in lakes, rivers and ponds. Read the full story by Waupaca County News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-wisconsinfish
A new study suggests that the global economic cost of invasive species has been at least $1.62 trillion over the last 50 years. Read the full story by CTV News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-invasivecosts
Representatives from the Blanchard River Watershed Partnership in Ohio met with the Hancock County Board of Commissioners on Thursday to discuss the development of wetlands in the area. Read the full story by The Courier.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-wetlandsfunds
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is attempting to use national defense policy legislation passed two years ago to force the U.S. Department of Defense into compliance with tough state pollution cleanup laws in Michigan. Read the full story by WJBK–TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-sewers
The Michigan PFAS Action Response Team will provide an update on its continuing investigation of PFAS contamination near the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base on Tuesday, April 20. Read the full story by WBKB – Alpena, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210402-oscoda
Scientists are comparing the diet of bank swallows along shorelines to those that have moved further inland to understand what is causing their population decline. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-shorebird-diet
Enbridge says it has completed the engineering and design phase of a 4-mile tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac that will house a new segment of the controversial Line 5 oil pipeline. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-line5-construction
An on-going study in Lakes Huron and Michigan is finding species-specific differences in what fish eat in the two lakes. Read the full story by Ludington Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-fish-diets
April is the month of Earth Day, and every year there is one type of litter that knows no boundaries. Balloons. Read the full story by KPC News – Kendallville, IN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-balloons
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is attempting to use national defense policy legislation passed two years ago to force the U.S. Department of Defense into compliance with tough state pollution cleanup laws in Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-pfas-cleanup
The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois needs volunteers to prepare Montrose Beach for the return of Monty and Rose, the Great Lakes piping plover pair who use the beach as their springtime nesting ground. Read the full story by Block Club Chicago.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-piping-plovers
The Bay of Green Bay, Wisconsin is the world’s largest freshwater estuary and an effort is underway to declare it a national reserve. The designation would create opportunities, like a state-of-the-art Visitor & Research Center, to help study this important body of water. Read the full story by WFRV – TV – Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-national-reserve
The Lake Express Ferry from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Muskegon, Michigan will start making high-speed trips across Lake Michigan on May 7. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-muskegon-ferry
On Oct. 26, 1952, strong winds caused the ‘S.S City of Grand Rapids’ steamship to snap from its mooring and swing into the St. Joseph Channel, blocking traffic. Read the full story by WZZM -TV – Grand Rapids, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-stuck-ship
As Canadian officials lobbied a Michigan Senate committee in March to keep the Line 5 pipeline open, Michigan Sen. Winnie Brinks grew frustrated with a conversation that, up to that point, had focused mainly on the immediate economic and safety implications of a possible shutdown. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-line5
The 2021 shipping season has started in Thunder Bay. Tug Sharon M1 and Barge Huron Spirit arrived in the port late Friday evening. with the vessel combination coming to the Mission Pier entrance around 11:30 p.m. Read the full story by the Chronicle Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210401-shipping
The queensnake, an endangered snake in Wisconsin, may cause delays in the reconstruction of a bridge in Racine. Read the full story by The Journal Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-queensnake
Residents living near the infamous Wolverine World Wide dump in west Michigan say they want a “real solution” to the issue of how to clean up the toxic chemical waste left buried in their neighborhood from leather manufacturing. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-wolverine
Restoring one of the rapids on the St. Marys River, which connects lakes Superior and Huron, is helping diverse fish species recover according to a recent study. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-rapids
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is partnering with the Michigan Learning Channel, a statewide distance-learning collaboration by public television stations, to provide environmentally focused instructional videos as part of the content on the new service. Read the full story by The Daily Mining Gazette.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-mlc
The governors of four Great Lakes states urged President Joe Biden to prioritize federal investments in long-neglected water infrastructure to advance environmental sustainability and climate resilience. Read the full story by WKZO – Kalamazoo, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-infrastructure
Officials from Sarnia, Ontario, answered questions from Members of Parliament about Enbridge’s Line 5, a pipeline that carries oil and gas to Sarnia from Western Canada, and spoke to the importance of keeping the pipeline running in Canada. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-line-5
As the international Lake Erie Committee meets to set 2021 commercial harvest limits on walleye and yellow perch, the group’s biologists are anticipating another phenomenal year of walleye fishing. Read the full story by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-walleye
After more than two years, Haldimand County in Ontario is getting up to $4,570,000 in provincial funds to offset costs to repair damages incurred after severe storms on Lake Erie in late 2019. Read the full story by Haldimand News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-storm
The Stannard Rock Lighthouse, a nearly 140-year-old structure in the middle of Lake Superior, is in need of major restoration. Read the full story by WBCK – Battle Creek, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-lighthouse
Michigan residents boating on the Great Lakes or adjoining federally monitored waterways will have a new federal engine cut-off switch requirement to follow beginning April 1. It will only impact boaters traversing U.S. Coast Guard-monitored waterways. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210331-boats
Several groups in Wisconsin hope to turn back the clock on Dunes Lake and restore it to its natural state of more than 100 years ago. Dunes Lake provides spawning habitat for fish and acts as a natural filter for the lake. Read the full story by the Green Bay Press Gazette.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-dunes-lake
Ludington Harbor Tours’ Al Laaksonen said he is taking his tourship Princess to Manistee after being unable to find a location to dock in Ludington for 2021. Read the full story by the Ludington Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-ludington-tour
Ludington Harbor Tours’ Al Laaksonen said he is taking his tourship Princess to Manistee after being unable to find a location to dock in Ludington for 2021. Read the full story by the Ludington Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-ludington-tour
Repairs and restoration are coming to three historic lighthouses in Michigan. More than $126,000 in grant funding from the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office have been awarded to the Crisp Point Light Historical Society, the North Manitou Light Keepers and St. Clair County Parks and Recreation. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-lighthouse-repairs
Repairs and restoration are coming to three historic lighthouses in Michigan. More than $126,000 in grant funding from the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office have been awarded to the Crisp Point Light Historical Society, the North Manitou Light Keepers and St. Clair County Parks and Recreation. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-lighthouse-repairs
Ontario’s plan to grow the Green Belt was the topic of discussion for a recent webinar, focusing in part on how adding protection to the Paris Galt Moraine would affect Guelph’s water supply in the future. Read the full story by Guelph Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-guelph
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District has awarded a $6.5 million contract to Great Lakes Dock and Materials, L.L.C. for the construction of a beneficial use of dredged material placement area designed to handle approximately 400,000 cubic yards of dredged material. Read the full story by DredgeWire.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-buffalo
The M.S. Norgoma’s future in Owen Sound as a proposed tourist destination and floating commerce hub may be dead in the water. The plan to tow the 71-year-old ship to Owen Sound from Sault Ste. Marie was declined by Transport Canada. Read the full story by The Sun Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-norgoma
A group dedicated to protecting Canada’s freshwater is looking for citizen scientists to keep an eye on Lake Erie. The Canadian Freshwater Alliance is seeking 40 volunteers to become Lake Erie Guardians who will test samples from the lake’s watershed. Read the full story by the Windsor Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-erie-testing
April 1st is always a big day for anglers — opening day of trout season. This year, April 1 doesn’t mark just the beginning of a new season, it marks the beginning of a new era. Last Wednesday, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced the finalization of new regulations. Read the full story by The Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-trout
Michigan environmental regulators scheduled an online town hall meeting to update local residents with the latest information about the Grayling community’s PFAS contamination. Read the full story by the Traverse City Record-Eagle.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-pfas
Michigan has more than its fair share of lighthouses. In fact, the Great Lakes state, with its expansive shorelines, boasts the most in the country. While many men led the life as a lighthouse keeper, Michigan has a long, beautiful history of female lighthouse keepers. Read and listen to the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210330-lighthouse
The largest port on the Great Lakes is hoping for a rebound after cargo shipments dropped to their lowest level since 1938 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first ship of the 2021 season arrived in the Twin Ports last week after the Poe Lock in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan opened Wednesday. View the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210329-shipping
It remains one of the great mysteries of the Great Lakes: how is it possible Toledo has next to no public access of its defining natural resource, Lake Erie? View the full story by The Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210329-metroparks
Discussion over the aging Pipeline 5 under the Mackinac Straits and plans to replace it, who wants it shut down, and the important relationship between Michigan and Canada. View the full story by WWJ – TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210329-michigan-line-5
The Ontario Parks partnership team created the Turtle Protection Project last fall with the goal to protect Ontario’s eight endangered turtle species. The project includes installing ecopassages for turtles to safely cross under roads preventing wildlife collisions. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210329-ontario-conservation-turtles
A new study finds that historic sources of mercury pollution are driving higher concentrations of the contaminant in sport fish that live and feed in the Duluth-Superior harbor. The results indicate contamination from long ago still holds risks for coastal areas of the Great Lakes. View the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210329-minnesota-river-pollution-fish
The Great Lake Sediment and Nutrient Reduction Program recently awarded the Minnesota Carlton Soil and Water Conservation District, a $200,000 grant to repair an unstable bank threatening sediment reaching the Little Net River and its fish spawning habitat. Read to the full story by Pine Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210329-minnesota-restoration
Research group has created a computer model of walleye in Lake Erie and the Maumee River as a part of a study to determine how contaminants would affect fish reproduction, and for management practices, how to efficiently clean and reduce the effect of the chemical pollutants. Read to the full story by Capital News Service.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210326-erie-fish-pollution
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, has awarded a $6.5 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company for the construction of a beneficial use of dredged material placement area designed to handle approximately 400,000 cubic yards of dredged material in Ohio’s Ashtabula Harbor. Read the full story by Dredging Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210326-ohio-harbor-dredge
Ohio officials have reduced the catch limit for yellow perch to 10 yellow perch a day taken along Ohio’s central Lake Erie coast due to low hatch rates in recent years, though the catch limit for the Western Basin is not affected. Read the full story by Sandusky Register.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20210326-erie-fish
